Nebulae in the Northern Cross

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  The object seen in these images, is it a real nebula real or is something else going on?
  I will post the normal image and the zoomed out image.

  
  
  AGZ0001s2s

  
  
  AGZ0002ewf

  
  
  AGZ0002euz

  
  
  AGZ0001s0z

  
  
  AGZ0002eo3

  
  
  AGZ0001s2x

  Posted October 27, 2014 12:33 PM

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  Coordinates of these 5 images:

  1. 20h50m48.3s, +44d32m51s

  2. 20h50m38.25462s, +42d11m43.4490s

  3. 20h23m37.18182s, +40d04m40.8226s

  4. 20h30m22.76572s, +40d08m48.0735s

  5. 20h51m15.23148s, +43d35m45.7684s

  6. 21h14m38.30631s, +43d55m51.8329s

  I checked Google Sky and there are definitely nebulae at these coordinates 😃

  Posted October 27, 2014 1:22 PM

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  Get out of here! The North America Nebula 😃

  

  http://www.dchamberlain.net/DeepSkyAstrophotos/image2.html

  AGZ0002ewf - AGZ0001s0z - AGZ0001s2s

  EDIT: this one too: AGZ0001s2x

  Posted October 27, 2014 1:32 PM

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  The nebula to the right of the North America Nebula is the Pelican Nebula

  

  http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061130.html

  It looks like AGZ0002euz and AGZ0002eo3 are part of it.

  Posted October 27, 2014 1:50 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  You could make a sliding puzzle! 😃

  

  Posted October 27, 2014 2:15 PM

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  LOL. I had a great time looking for the identity of the nebulae, and yes, it was like solving a puzzle.
  Now I have to find out which nebula this is: AGZ0002fu0

  Posted October 27, 2014 2:24 PM

• by DZM admin in response to Alpha Aurigae's comment.

  Wow, that's kind of uncanny how much that resembles North America.

  Some more information here, if anyone is curious the way I was!

  Posted October 28, 2014 8:59 AM

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  

  http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101119.html

  Posted December 9, 2014 2:22 PM

• by Alpha_Aurigae

  AGZ0002euz and AGZ0002eo3 are located somewhere between the Pelican Nebula and the Butterfly Nebula.

  Posted December 9, 2014 2:25 PM